A steamed pudding mixture poured into a bowl with currants or blackcurrant jam (US: jelly) in the bottom. As a result, when it is turned out it has a black cap.
This describes a number of purple or black-coloured raspberry varieties. It is also a variety of Japanese wineberry.
Black caraway seeds are the seeds of which have a warm odour and an aromatic, pungent and slightly bitter flavour.
The black chanterelle or horn of plenty resembles the grey chanterelle, but is a much tastier mushroom. It is a tough, wild, horn-shaped, fluted fungus which is black when damp and which smells and tastes similar to a truffle, earthy and buttery. In season from August to October, it grows up to 15 cm (6 inches) in height. It is used with other mushrooms, or in sauces or dried. It should be cooked. Also known as the trumpet of death, which is a bit alarming! (If gathering mushrooms you must be absolutely certain what you have before you eat them as many are very poisonous.)
Black chickpeas (US: garbanzo beans), Bengal gram, channa are darker and smaller than the chickpeas generally available in the West.
Wood ear fungus. The wood ears commonly include the Judas's ear, cloud ear and silver ear fungus. Generally found dried, they should not be fried but stewed for at least an hour with other ingredients.
Cochins come in a variety of colours, including black, buff, blue and white, as well as "cuckoo", "partridge" and "grouse". They are characterised by their general roundess of shape and are now mainly recognisable by their fluffy legs. They were among the first show birds in the West as, before their arrival from China in 1845, birds were almost exclusively bred for the table and for their laying properties. The original birds were gingery buff in colour and they are placid birds which make good brooding hens.
Black grouse. Heath cock. It lives on moors, near trees and likes marshy ground with rushes, stands of trees and rocky, heather-covered hills. Game birds which are trussed and roasted like a chicken. They can be shot from 20th August to 10 December although the season starts on 1st September in parts of the south. They can be hung for up to ten days. Like grouse, they are occasionally called moorgame, moorfowl or moorcock. Capercaillie are also known as black cocks.
Capercaillie. Black cock. Wood grouse. This large, grouse-like game bird is found in coniferous woodland hills of Scandinavia and Baltic countries, Scotland, the former Yugoslavia and Central Europe with some in the Pyrenees. They are usually found on the floors of coniferous forests during summer and up in the trees in winter.
